Monday, November 5, 2012

Lenovo T61 Audio Pops Clicks Ubuntu 12.10

This appears to be an old bug in kernel module snd_hda_intel (see /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/powersave.txt and http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/388736-strange-pop-click-sound-speakers-every-time.html). Strangely however, I only observed this after upgrading to Precise AND installation of a new battery in my T61p Thinkpad. In any case, turning off Intel audio power saving works around the problem:In /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/intel-audio-powersavechange the line